skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're interested in a do-it-yourself approach, I pulled all the books I could find from the HBS course catalog: [redacted]
I went to a Stanford MBA talk here in Austin TX this summer. They noted that upwards of 40-50% of their MBA alumni pursue an entrepreneurial endeavor at some point in their career.
You can sell your service to people that have iPads.

This is the fundamental question of what an iPad is. Apple would like it to be treated as an extension of their store, and you want it to be like a Windows PC. Any consumer that agrees with you is free to jailbreak -- your problem is that consumers seem to have no problem with Apple's model -- they probably don't understand it, but they haven't perceived an indirect drawback either.

Developers should have their eyes wide open about it by now.

So, the right thing, if your intention is to change their behavior is to not support them. Don't buy it, don't develop for it, encourage others to do the same.

The thing is ... everyone wants one and wants to develop for them.
LearnStreet is a great introduction to the world of coding. They have a bunch of really awesome Code Garage projects, and I especially like making the games, and Conway's Game of Life. Their teaching methods are very welcoming to someone who hasn't been exposed to this stuff yet, and I recommend anyone who is even remotely interested in learning how to code to give it a try, you won't regret it.
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To create a valuable product, though, you need to be around other people that are passionate about creating a solution to a problem. Maybe an MBA might not be good for this, but other graduate degrees might.
All you'd really need to do is to find a way to simulate 'regular' (discrete) life. Setting it up would be a major pain.
What do you mean that we will lose 30% from only the first sale? If a user subscribes using IAP, their subsequent payments will also be charged a 30% fee by Apple. Won't they?

And its not the question of whether we can do business at $x * 70% or not. We would love to give 30% to someone who actually brings a customer to us (we actually have a 20% recurring commission for our affiliates). The question is how is Apple entitled to that cut?
Interesting approach to a space that has so much potential. It's definitely legal to allow people to pick a team... even if its not considered a skill game (like a darts game at the carnival). But cashing out instead of prizes... that's where the debate begins.
I feel the same way. Currently the best solution may be online materials such as the personal MBA blog (which lists out a whole slew of books to read) and Coursera/Udacity courses.

The Steve Blank one is pretty awesome: http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/ep245/CourseRev/1
Look at the bright side. Anyone who wants to create consumer-unfriendly DRM-protected CAD files now needs to jump through hoops and pay fees to Myhrvold's company. With any luck, this patent will actually reduce the incentive to apply DRM protection to 3D manufacturing.
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Even if this did manage to get widely deployed, it would only harm legitimate users. Like every other non-interactive content DRM system ever created, it will be easy to subvert any restrictions. HDCP did nothing to prevent movie piracy, the various music DRMs did nothing to prevent music piracy and this will do nothing to prevent "thing" piracy.

Myhrvold is smart enough to realize this won't work in practice but he'll still probably profit from it. Corps will inevitably call for this sort of DRM to be forced on commercially sold 3D printers and when they do Myhrvold will be laughing all the way to the bank unless some substantial patent reform has taken place in the meantime, which it probably won't.
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At least in Spain.
Be careful - ACP[1] for VHS recorders was patented, and manufacturers were forced to implement it (and pay the royalties.)

[1]:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrovision#Content_protection_...]
I would also argue that most MBA programs teach you how to create a company in the current flip environment - nothing that has longevity.
So who's going to cost the economy more in the next 30 years or so, Myhrvold and co. or terrorists?

Seriously, I do hope "cunning" is being used ironically here. There is absolutely zero cunning involved in "DRM, but for 3d printers!"
Have you looked at the digital goods API for Google Wallet?

Docs: https://developers.google.com/in-app-payments/

Demos: https://developers.google.com/in-app-payments/docs/samples
Funny thing is that it doesn't seem like the actual registered trademark includes capitalization choice. They are all shown as all-caps in the PTOs database, for instance: Word Mark	ITUNES MATCH
This is interesting. Thanks for the links. This is definitely worth a conversation.
Nobody in the Maker crowd is going to endorse this plan, but eventually somebody's going to try to apply the "cheap razor / expensive blades" model to 3D printing once a compelling use case for consumer 3D printing is found.

Printer companies like HP and Canon use extensive DRM in their ink cartridges. They wouldn't hesitate to add it to their input validation, either.
For me as well (Denmark)

The productivity of the world just skyrocketed...
"cunning".... that word doesn't mean what you think it means.

This is DRM.
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That Heroku video you link to on the Dev Tools page is about 4 years old, and is demoing a version of the product that no longer exists (their attempt at an online IDE of sorts).

Looks like a great product, though! Keep it up.
I've had one of the cheapest Kemsirve's (Kimsufi spanish brand) for a few months. The only issues with them is the lack of CPU, only two cores and not really powerful, and the not-redundant SATA drive.

But if all you need is a ton of bandwidth and space (1tb!), it's a nice deal. They have great connectivity (located in France), and only went down for one evening (when all of OVH network went down simultaneously worldwide).

For more power and CPU usage, you're better off with an VPS. They usually also have RAID underlying drives so at least you have some more warranties against data loss.
Complementary chart:

http://www.ec2instances.info/
Considering how fast iPhones are jailbroken, breaking the DRM won't take much time.
Even though I don't necessarily disagree with him, I am amazed to read this article. He actually sent this email to his employees which clearly tells them not to vote for a certain party.
I really like the way this is set up with lengthy examples next to the explanatory text. I look forward to reading through it. Thanks!

In the meantime, mind a quick comment on the typography? The Palatino Linotype body text renders poorly on Windows. Italics are particularly hard to read.

I tried changing it to Georgia and it made a world of difference:

http://mg.to/images/go-by-example-palatino.png

http://mg.to/images/go-by-example-georgia.png
Hey guys, check out the Conway's Game of Life Code Garage project on LearnStreet: http://www.learnstreet.com/cg/simple/project/conways
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No, we can not sell our service to people who have iPads without paying a 30% cut to Apple.

Again, as mentioned in the article, we think there is nothing wrong with Apple having an App Store and charging a 30% fee. What's wrong is, Apple forcing everyone to use their App Store for distributing Apps.

"Don't buy it, don't develop for it, encourage others to do the same" - That is the whole point of this article.
The source control thing makes sense to me (you'll get nicer diffs), but otherwise I don't understand the benefits listed here.
Although these types of sites (Codecademy, etc) are great and teach absolute beginners all the basics of programming, they've left me lost as to how to continue developing my skill set. I've hit a wall for some time and am stuck in this strange better-than-a-beginner-but-still-terribly-amateur middleground where the resources I keep coming across are either tailored for fresh beginners or more advanced programmers.

Does anyone have any suggestions or good resources that are tailored to my level?
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hmmm - it would be have to imagine anyone who spent over 100K on a degree would trash the institution that they got the degree from. They would burn quite a few bridges in doing so.
I don't think a degree defines your success or failure in life (or business or school or anything).

I think you do. The type of person you are and how you affect yourself and others is what will lead you down the path to failure or success in your business, or any endeavor you embark on.

If it's a dream of yours to get an MBA, go get one.
If you have no interest of ever going back to school, don't.

Either way, you can still achieve amazing things.
I wonder what a 3D version (http://www.ibiblio.org/e-notes/Life/Game.htm) of a continuous game of life would look like... could similar cell-like structures emerge with these kind of rules also in 3D.
Aren't cellular automata in continuous space just PDE's? If so, what is the equation being integrated?

EDIT: found the paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.1567v2.pdf
Well I can't seem to find the rules, but that shouldn't be very difficult.

Might even be able to do it in a way that works without canvas.
Admittedly IANAL, but I'm very confused about how this doesn't infringe on Amazon's trademark for "TeachStreet":

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4008:ir...

http://www.geekwire.com/2012/exclusive-amazoncom-buys-teachs...
It will probably reduce the incentive; it may increase the ability. We'll find out which effect dominates.
That is precisely what is the case. Proving irreparable damage is one of the necessary preconditions to obtaining a preliminary injunction. And irreparable damage is distinguished from competition. You cannot prove irreparable damage from lost sales with an unimportant patent--it has to be so central that people buy the product because of the infringed patent.

That's basically exactly what this decision says. The judge shouldn't have granted the preliminary injunction because Apple didn't prove irreparable damage, and Apple didn't prove irreparable damage because they didn't show that the infringed patent is what caused people to buy the Galaxy Nexus.
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Falstad is for simple simulation. Not PCB layout.
France too. But it doesn't seem to be down everywhere (http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.facebook.com)
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Not quite; the values at every point are boolean, not floats.

(From the link) The algorithm is explained here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyTIXRhjXII
I'm right here with you. And in addition to their roadmap, the overall structure / priorities are also stellar.

+1 for being open, accesible, and responsive on all fronts.
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We're coming out with some "intermediate" level content soon ;)
It seems to have much simpler behavior - gliders, bridges, and bricks. Don't think we're going to discover any prime number generators with this version of Life.
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Nice, but I think "I, pencil" (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I,_Pencil) is better.
Instead of just scalable startups, a scalable startup ecosystem
Awesome concept- super clean design and easy to start playing! Are you guys going to have the football (soccer) Word Cup?
> Conway's game of life would look organic if you zoomed out enough, no computer can do that of course.

How far do you want to zoom out?
My apps are from Salesforce, Yammer and Concur -- not third parties. I would bet there are 100's or 1000's of apps like this -- just look at the EMR space: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/drchrono-emr/id363897223?mt=8

Your way is another, but I think unnecessary.

You might have a bad reviewer -- collect 50 examples like the above and ask why you are different.
Neal Stephenson has a great quote on this (from the Diamond Age):

"You know, when I was a young man, hypocrisy was deemed the worst of vices. It was all because of moral relativism. You see, in that sort of a climate, you are not allowed to criticise others--after all, if there is no absolute right and wrong, then what grounds is there for criticism?

"Now, this led to a good deal of general frustration, for people are naturally censorious and love nothing better than to criticise others' shortcomings. And so it was that they seized on hypocrisy and elevated it from a ubiquitous peccadillo into the monarch of all vices..."

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2006/03/21/hypocrisy_is_the_gre...
My MBA was paid for by the company I was working for. Does your calculus remain the same if someone is willing to foot the bill?
Startup Chile doesn't really care too much where you're located after the program. If you move to the states and raise a couple million bucks they will be pleased as punch and it looks good for them-- they consider it a success for themselves.

The goal is to bring entrepreneurs to chile, and have them interact with chileans. And the program is very successful at that-- many of the companies hire chileans and everyone spends some time directly helping bootstrap entreprenurism in chile.

For example, one of the things we did was help chileans work on their business ideas.

A lot of the companies end up with deeper ties to chile. Some take on Chileans as co-founders, others as employees, and a minority, but a significant one, stay in chile after the program ends, even though you don't have to.
Context: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642612
It's working fine in the UK
Conway's Game Of Life written in one line of APL
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> a preliminary injunction will often involve some sort of bond requirement

So depending on how large that is, it can say a bit about how serious Apple is about this stuff (or how deep their pockets are, maybe)? For anybody who's curious, like I was, the bond amount was $95,637,141.60 (~$95.6 million) [1]. Is Samsung now entitled to get some of that because of the unjustified preliminary junction? Or only if they win?

[1] http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1221082/show_temp.pdf
Basically, the article says that an MBA will divert you away from entrepreneurship - ok that I can agree with, but not the "don't get an MBA" title.

There might be an education bubble. There might be an anti-education bias - especially here.

But even with the best online tools and classes, what you learn with a standard curriculum is just better - that's the sad truth, and it is even truer if you are a self directed learner and don't care about the grades.

Case in point - I got interested in economics and started reading books - then followed online courses and videos from prestigious universities and so on. Purchased textbooks, etc. I worked seriously, but I soon realized that the freedom to dig on subjects I thought worth investigating was mitigated by the lack of common knowledge expected for advancing my knowledge further.

You can look at that like a multiple dependancies problem - except that you don't know about these dependancies beforehand.

With a traditional class, you acquire the same vocabulary, the same comparison basis and so on - and that's priceless. I have started taking classes, and I now realize that. I learn about topics I would have never learnt on my own and I realize 'yes, they could be quite useful'.

Please realize I'm not even taking about the network or other benefits you may find in an MBA - just the actual knowledge.

I haven't done an MBA (yet?), but I guess most of the commenters here haven't either - and haven't even tried and given up (which would then be interesting to know).

So I wonder how they can judge about its pertinence. Before this experience, I was also imbued in delusions of "online learning that made everything possible". But there's a dependency ceiling - I've touched it. Personally, if I can enroll in one, I know I will.
It's confusing because several algorithms are explained, but I believe they're actually floats in this version.

Also it's not a normal PDE because ∂f/∂t is permitted to be an arbitrary functional of f restricted to a fixed-diameter neighborhood of the point, not just an infinitesimal neighborhood.
E-gads that thing is as frustrating as any other PCB layout software. More-so than many. It's a shame because Good PCB layout software is so badly needed.
Disclaimer: I'm a teacher at Dev Bootcamp (http://devbootcamp.com). Everything I say comes from love -- if I didn't care about this deeply I wouldn't bother to remark in the first place. :)

Very nice! We can always use more absolute-beginner tutorials in the world.

Just started the Ruby tutorial:

"Great! So what just happened here? To begin with, let's define what you typed 2 + 2 as instructions. The ruby console reads your typed instructions, interprets it, and then acts on the instructions the way you gave it. This step is called evaluation. Instruction when complete are called an expression. If the instructions you have typed are incomplete (for example, if you typed 2 + and hit enter), this console will show an error message. The instruction you typed, 2 + 2 is an expression. It is important to remember that evaluation of an expression always returns a value. This value is what is shown as result on the console. In this case, 4 was the result of the evaluation."

If someone honestly knows nothing about coding, you've probably just lost them right there. Questions a beginner would ask:

* What is a "ruby console?"

* What instructions? I typed "2+2."

* What does "interprets" mean?

* How can instructions be complete? Were they ever incomplete? How do I know when they're complete?

* "Returns?" "Value?" "Result?"

In a few sentences, with jargon highlighted:

I type instructions into a console which turn into expressions when they're complete. The console evaluates the expression and returns a value, which is shown as a result on the console.

A beginning programmer won't have the mental models necessary to make sense any of that. It's context-free. Most of those words have no prior associations, and those that do will lead them astray. Metaphor is your friend.

For reading, I recommend Bret Victor's essay on Learnable Programming: (http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/) and Mindstorms by Seymour Papert (http://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful...).
And now the circle is closed. After decades of patenting "Physical idea X, but on a computer!", we are now patenting "Computer idea X, but in the physical world!"

Seriously, the idea that "Hey, let's apply DRM to files describing physical goods" is absurd, even on patent law's own terms. DRM is just DRM, it doesn't particularly care what's in the file being DRM'ed. This patent should be denied on obviousness grounds.
This answer totally made my day. Excellent analogy.
Love the UI ... very easy and simple to use... let the games begin...
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Stanford is an outlier as they are very entrepreneur focused. I believe the number is much smaller for other top schools.
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The Iraq war, or new roads and bridges and clean coal burning plants?

Massive tax cuts for the rich, or investments in education?

Lax regulation of bank loans and credit card loans, or time-tested traditions of banking prudence?

Multi-million dollar payouts to health insurance CEOs (Cigna CEO David Cordani made the most, at $19.1 million, in 2011) or universal health care for all citizens?

A vast bureaucracy devoted to keeping entrepreneurs in their home countries, or the "Land of opportunity" offering a warm welcome for the worlds entrepreneurs?

There were many decisions made that lead the USA to its current situation. Anyone who argues that government debt is the sole issue, or even the main issue, has failed to pay attention.
If not, they need to stop wasting time and get around to it.
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I'm not logging in with Facebook to see your site, about which I know nothing, when you haven't even sold me on its relevance to the topic under discussion.
Fritzing for really simple stuff.

DipTrace for most other things.
This is woefully misguided. I'd much rather have a Harvard MBA and have access to that network than be a YC alum and have access to that network. A top MBA buys you instant credibility with business people (i.e. potential customers), it exposes you to the business needs of a wide variety of fields (i.e. potential products/services), and it gives you access to a wide variety of people who can help you out, not just with the ins-and-outs of running a startup, but with financial issues, management issues, legal issues, and the whole range of topics that affect a small business.

I also found one quote interesting because it reflects such a myopic view of entrepreneurship: "Despite everything learned about business in MBA programs only 5% of graduates go on to start a business upon graduation!" It seems that in the author's mind, the only potential entrepreneurs are fresh graduates (i.e. people who don't know anything about anything). Did it occur to the author that many people go into an industry, learn how it works and build a network, then start a business once they have a strong foundation in place? Maybe that's not how your typical web startup works, but there is a whole world of entrepreneurship beyond that niche.
Wow, consider my brain melted. I guess the next question is, how busy are these guys?
Outstanding, thank you for this. Worth a post on its own don't you think?
To what industry is The Economist specific?
If anyone cares, my two cents so far. Disclaimer: I love scifi and fantasy stuff in general and think that I have a rather high bullshit tolerance.

Started with Old Man's War and finished it in one go. Liked it a lot, although it was really simple. It was a great start for this bundle and set some high expectations.

I started Magic for beginners, a collection of short stories. The first one was.. weird. But fun and a good read. The second was unreadable. I tried multiple times, restarted.. No luck. Checked the third and it's a freak story in a q/a format.. Tried, failed. Last chance, story four. Maybe that one isn't bad, I was annoyed by now. The beginning is.. totally off though. I stopped, deleted the book.

How about Invasion? Deleted it after 10 minutes. I'll keep it in an index of reference books for crap that is impossibly bad. Its like a C-movie, but without the special effects and with a worse plot.
Granted, Hitler/Nazi plots have a hard time with this German reader. If an author thinks that it makes sense to drop German-except-not-really quotes on every other page I'm deeply disgusted. Don't. Oh my god is it bad.

So.. I'm now disillusioned. I love the Humble Bundle stuff, but so far this particular one was exceptional in only one way, a bad way.

Obviously this is a matter of taste and maybe everything else is good anyway, but I cannot recommend this Bundle to friends.
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its opening fine here in India
not in London. although http://touch.facebook.com works fine
Floods would be great because it saves chemicals and time when doing single and double sided boards at home. (Don't have to etch away so much copper.)
may be. Personally, I will not do an MBA even if paid for by someone. I would rather be spending my time building something. Just one perspective.